One of the most reliable methods to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may restrict the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also prevent the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with just a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then type the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type them by hand. Since all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.